Course teached as: B005321 - LETTERATURA TEDESCA 1 (12 CFU) Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Curriculum STUDI LETTERARI E CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Title: E.T.A. Hoffmann and Italy: theatre, painting, music, cities.
We will analyse the very great importance that Italian culture has in E.T.A. Hoffmann's work (commedia dell'arte, Italian paintings of the Renaissance, opera buffa), with special regard to those Italian cities (Rome, Naples, Venice) that make up the setting of some very famous tales of the great German writer.
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Die Elixiere des Teufels; Prinzessin Brambilla; Signor Formica; Die Fermate; Doge und Dogaressa; Die Jesuitenkirche in G.
Course program
We will analyse the very great importance that Italian culture has in E.T.A. Hoffmann's work (commedia dell'arte, Italian paintings of the Renaissance, opera buffa), with special regard to those Italian cities (Rome, Naples, Venice) that make up the setting of some very famous tales of the great German writer.